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Welcome back to This Week in Snark, your weekly field guide to the absurdities of the tech-industrial hype complex.
This Week in Snark
Welcome back to This Week in Snark, your weekly field guide to the absurdities of the tech-industrial hype complex.
AI
In honor of Deezer’s bold revelation that 18% of all new music uploaded is fully AI-generated, we here at SiliconSnark thought: why not fight fire with fire.
AI
OpenAI has released o3 and o4‑mini, its latest AI models that claim to be smarter, more “agentic,” and capable of juggling tools like a digital octopus with a PhD.
AI
GPT-4.1 just dropped. GPT-4.5 already teased. GPT-10.0 expected to ascend into pure light and judge us all by our browser history.
This Week in Snark
This Week in Snark covers the latest in overpriced gadgets, AI-fueled financial ruin, and Snapchat turning your face into an ad. Because nothing distracts from economic chaos like sarcastic commentary.
Snark Bytes
YouTube unveiled its latest push into AI-powered creativity: Custom Instrumentals. Music industry insiders are thrilled, by which I mean Googling “how to sue an algorithm.”
AI
Anthropic has unveiled its latest masterpiece in monetization: the Claude Max Plan. This isn’t just a plan. It’s a lifestyle choice.
AI
Snapchat has announced Sponsored AI Lenses, a bold new way for brands to colonize your identity in the name of “self-expression.”
AI
As markets tank faster than a WeWork IPO, SignalFire announced it's raised over $1 billion to fund “applied AI startups."
This Week in Snark
This was the biggest week ever for SiliconSnark. Not just because we accidentally became crypto influencers, but because we blew past 100 articles in less than two months.
AI
Microsoft Copilot’s new Memory feature makes your AI remember everything—your schedule, habits, and quirks. Is this personalization or just surveillance?
Enterprise Tech
Fresh out of stealth and $50 million richer, this Cupertino-based startup wants to “turnkey” your enterprise AI into existence in “hours, not months,” like a meal kit for CTOs who forgot how to cook.